[UPDATED] The Taco Emoji is *Finally* a Reality

The new emoji package is finally here with the arrival of Apple's iOS 9.1, including 150 new characters like our beloved taco, burrito, wedge of cheese, poppin' champagne bottle, and popcorn. Rejoice, shoot your friends a slew of hunger-inducing texts, and then have a snack to celebrate. Here's what they officially look like:

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UPDATE: September 9, 2015 at 6:17 p.m.

We've been not-so-patiently waiting since June for Unicode to get its act together and release the highly anticipated taco emoji. (Oh, and all the other new food illustrations.) According to TheNextWeb, we can expect the Tex-Mex character to hit our iPhone keyboards when iOS 9.1 rolls out. But Apple is, unsurprisingly, keeping that release date under wraps. Still, we're doing a happy dance for burritos, hot dogs, popcorn, and cheese wedges!

Beta keyboard for iOS 9.1, as released to developers.

Courtesy of TheNextWeb

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ORIGINAL POST: June 17, 2015 at 2:34 p.m.

Tacos are a cult-favorite that rival pizza in popularity—on the internet and IRL. Astronauts have made them in space and they've got pop culture cameos aplenty. Hell, people have even written tributes to Taco Bell. Now Unicode is acknowledging the Mexican dish's significance: The developers single-handedly responsible for our amped-up texts are finally answering my—and most of the Twittersphere's—prayers by giving the taco its rightful spot on the emoji keyboard.

Gene Belcher feels me on this one:

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This announcement follows a recent food-emoji update that avocado, champagne flutes, and croissant emojis will be added early next year. But today's update doesn't stop with the hard-shell taco: Unicode 8.0 will also bestowing us with a burrito, hot dog, cheese wedge, popcorn, bottle of champagne (or possibly prosecco?), and a turkey (um, but it's live). Just don't start planning your food-fueled tweets yet: The release does not guarantee immediate adoption of the new characters (aka, they're not supported by iOS, Android, and Windows yet). While we wait for the full-fledged emoji roll-out, start salivating over the mock-ups: